The reason why Kerry "won" is because Bush didn't bother to point any of this out. It was definately a disappointing performance from Bush in that regard, but it was worse for Kerry with a lot of vague and confusing and down right bad policy proposals.
I'm with counterpunch. As a Bush supporter, I was dissapointed last night. Bush did worse than I thought, and Kerry did better than I thought he would. Don't misunderstand me....I think Kerry is full of crap, and everything he said last night was the opposite of at least ONE statement he has uttered in the past nine months, but I wanted to see Bush on the attack more and pointing this stuff out.
I still consider the debate a draw (leaning Bush) simply because I know there was more fact than fiction to what Bush said, but I really would have liked to see Bush turn things around more often on Kerry.
Best line of the night though goes to Bush when he mentioned he agreed with Senator Kerry that anyone who doesn't consider Saddam a grave threat to the United States does not have the judgement to be President of the United States.
I was HOWLING at the TV though when Kerry said something about the troops not having body armor and Bush did NOT take that opportunity to talk about the $87 billion. That was the PERFECT retort, and Bush fumbled it.
I think he did well...but not great.